Seventh Heaven, Revolving restaurant in Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow, Russia

Seventh Heaven is a revolving restaurant complex inside Moscow's Ostankino TV Tower, with three halls on separate floors at 328, 331 and 334 metres above ground. Each hall is 2.5 metres wide and holds 24 four-seat tables along panoramic windows on a 9.2-metre radius; the three halls total 600 m². The photograph shows wooden tables set with salads and bread, green booth seating and tall grey-framed windows curving over a snow-covered city.

The name was chosen in a 1966 contest in the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, which received 400 suggestions; five Muscovites, including Lev Fedyushin, were named winners. In 1967 and 1968 only government delegations dined there, among them Brezhnev, Kosygin and Podgorny on 7 November 1967; the public was admitted in 1969. A fire on 27 August 2000 destroyed all three halls, and the complex reopened in November 2016 after a 16-year restoration.

The name was chosen in a 1966 contest run by the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, which received 400 suggestions; five Muscovites, including Lev Fedyushin, were named winners and dined here in November 1967. The restaurant appears at the start of the 1971 Soviet film "Seventh Heaven", and the 1967/68 New Year TV show "Goluboy Ogonyok" was filmed in a studio decorated as the restaurant.

The complex rotates once every 40 minutes. The Bronze coffee shop (70 seats) and Silver cafe (62 seats) take no reservations; the Gold restaurant (48 seats) requires booking. After the 2000 fire, Russian emergency rules limit the tower to 50 visitors at a time, so entry follows the Ostankino Tower visiting rules.

The 1966 naming contest in Vechernyaya Moskva drew 400 entries, including "Forward to Victory" and "Glory to the Soviets"; one reader alone sent 77. The jury chose five Muscovites who proposed "Seventh Heaven", among them Lev Fedyushin, and treated them to dinner with the signature "Vysota" drink.